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S.  R.  A.— B.  S.  35.  October  25,  1920. 

United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU  OF  BIOLOGICAL  SURVEY. 

E.  W.  Nelson,  Chief  of  Bureau. 


SERVICE  AND  REGULATORY  ANNOUNCEMENTS. 


REGULATIONS  FOR  THE  PROTECTION  OF  LAND  FUR-BEARING 
ANIMALS  IN  ALASKA. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  conferred  upon  the  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture by  the  act  of  May  31,  1920,  entitled  "An  act  making  appro- 
priations for  the  Department  of  Agriculture  for  the  fiscal  year  end- 
ing June  30,  1921"  (Public  No.  234,  66th  Cong.),  conferring  upon 
the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  the  powers  and  duties  theretofore  con- 
ferred upon  the  Secretary  of  Commerce,  by  law,  proclamations,  or 
Executive  orders,  with  respect  to  any  mink,  marten,  beaver,  land 
otter,  muskrat,  fox,  wolf,  wolverine,  weasel,  or  other  land  fur-bearing 
animal  in  Alaska,  regulation  4,  of  the  regulations  for  the  protection 
of  land  fur-bearing  animals  in  Alaska,  effective  July  1,  1920,  is 
hereby  amended  to  read  as  follows : 

OPEN   SEASONS. 

District  1: 

Muskrat,  December  16  to  March  31,  both  dates  inclusive. 

Otter,  mink,  and  weasel   (ermine),  December  1G  to  March  15,  both  dates 

inclusive. 
Lynx,  December  1  to  January  31,  both  dates  inclusive. 
Fox,  December  1  to  February  28,  both  dates  inclusive. 

In  testimony  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the 
official  seal  of  the  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture  to  be 
affixed,  in  the  District  of  Columbia,  this  5th  day  of  October,  1920. 

[seal.]  E.  T.  Meredith, 


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